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@ranchandcoast RANCH & COAST MAGAZINE JULY 2025 65 environment | philanthropy | family | pets Focus thinking about these little pollinators, he looked to his orchard once again. When he discovered Best Bees, an independent beekeeping company that manages hives in select locations nationwide, he knew it was a fit for him. He reached out to propose his property as a future home for some Best Bees hives in the company's first season in San Diego and they agreed. When Rancho Santa Fe resident David Bender delved more deeply into the crisis of rapidly declining honeybee populations in the U.S., he knew there was at least a little something he could do about it. e globally-minded homeowner has already engaged local food recovery organization ProduceGood to take surplus fruit from his on-property orange orchard to donate to hunger relief efforts, but A Partnership That's Sweet as Honey A LOCAL HOMEOWNER IS HAPPY HOST TO BUZZY GUESTS BY DEANNA MURPHY | PHOTO BY BOB STEFANKO David Bender and beekeeper Carrie Díazzz stand before hives at Bender's Rancho Santa Fe home >>